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I am not convinced. Agreed, for yet another reason. | 457 comments | Create New Account
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I am not convinced
Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 01:17 AM EDT

You are not alone in your doubts here. I believe many feel as you, though I have never seen it as well articulated as you have just done. The whole patent system is so insane, I think there is great fear to do anything more than make campaign style speeches and offer band aid solutions. If those politicians ever stopped for a single moment and stared the absurdity in the face it would be overwhelming for them. They would then become vulnerable to seeing the absurdities everywhere they look, like how they serve the corporations instead of the electorate, and they wouldn't be able to sleep at night. They would lose their nerve, and wouldn't be able to continue.

Many feel overjoyed, and want to BELIEVE, while others are realists but will accept one small step for a man in lieu of a giant leap for mankind that they know will never come. Me, I don't expect anything much will come of this in the short turn, but in the long run, I do feel there is a convergence of forces at work that in time will change the landscape - but not before many more innocent victims secumb to the insanity wrought by patents and trolls.

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I am not convinced. Agreed, for yet another reason.
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 11:26 AM EDT
There is a big problem which an executive order simply can not address, nor
correct.

Namely, the problem of software patents arose and grew due to court decisions.
Judge-made law.

How many times did the patent office deny a stupid software patent and the
applicant went to the courts (CAFC in particular) and the rejection was reversed
in court? Enough, certainly.

It is quite understandable, given the history, that the point came at which the
patent office simply threw in the towel.

The courts have already "educated" and "trained" the patent
examiners. Now, a presidential order is going to fix that?

I agree that some parts of the order may fix some parts of the problem,
especially the parts which specifically may inhibit trolls. But, the order will
do nothing to fix the worst of the problems. A presidential order can not fix
the fundamentals.

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